mignonette

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A plant, Reseda odorata, having greyish-green flowers with orange-coloured stamens, and exhaling a delicious fragrance. In Africa it is a low shrub, but further north it is usually an annual herb. countable,uncountable
    — After amusing herself for a brief time with picking to pieces some mignonette which filled a box on the window-sill, Marie threw the flowers from her, and exclaimed,—"And here we are seated together, as we used to talk away half the night in Italy. Good Heavens! how we are altered!"
  2. A mignonette tree (Lawsonia inermis), source of the dye henna. countable,uncountable
  3. A mignonette vine. countable,uncountable
  4. A greyish-green colour, like that of the flowers of the plant. countable,uncountable
  5. Short for mignonette sauce abbreviation,alt-of,countable,uncountable
形容词 adj.
  1. Of a greyish-green colour, like that of the flowers of the plant.
    — She wore a dishabille of mignonette-green silk and bead-diapered head-dress that added several inches to her height […].

词形变化

mignonettes plural mignonnette alternative,obsolete more mignonette comparative most mignonette superlative mignonnette alternative,obsolete

词汇关系

近义词
reseda

词源

词源 1
From French mignonnette, from mignon (“dainty”) + -ette (diminutive suffix).
词源 2
From French mignonnette, from mignon (“dainty”) + -ette (diminutive suffix).
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